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...against [the policy change] personally.The purpose of the club is another social outlet,"said Owl member Benjamin M. Green...

Author: By Victoria C. Hallett, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Delphic, Owl Clubs Restrict Guests | 2/4/1999 | See Source »

...heads at the mall. Designed by an assemblage of talent, including Harald Belker, who gave Hollywood the Batmobile, the two-wheeler is a mountain bike with an ignition on the handlebars. Just turn the key, and it will carry you about 20 miles between charges (at any 110-volt outlet)--unless, that is, you're not too lazy to pedal, in which case it'll take you as far as you want to go. The sticker price...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iacocca Gets New Wheels | 2/1/1999 | See Source »

...today's climate, it takes money to create community. At the minimum, for a radio station to be an effective community outlet, it has to sponsor festivals, concerts, job fairs and block parties, events which will get people out of their narrow routines and into contact with one another...

Author: By Jal D. Mehta, | Title: Looking for Community on the FM Dial | 1/25/1999 | See Source »

...fill so many roles--and do so with often paltry resources and ill-qualified teachers--that it's no surprise more work gets sent home. For baby-boomer parents homework has become both a status gauge--the nightly load indicates the toughness of their child's school--and an outlet for nervy overbearance, so that each homework assignment is practically theirs to complete too. Yet the growth in dual-income families means less energy and shorter fuses for assisting the kids. And all the swirling arguments over homework underscore the bigger questions that confound American teachers, parents and policymakers: What...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Homework Ate My Family | 1/25/1999 | See Source »

Anna, whose conflicted intelligence exercises itself in passion (when that was the only outlet allowed a middle-class woman), is more than a match for her husband or her lover. Her passion is as potent as Tomas' guilt or Henrik's rage. She can plan an adulterous weekend as if it were a state dinner and tell Henrik that "the thought of your seed in my body was unbearable." She can dish out the awful truth or a blessed lie, and her men don't know the difference. Her only proper adversary is a disapproving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Cries and Whispers | 1/25/1999 | See Source »

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